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Prior to the Industrial Revolution, economies were primarily agricultural. Whether an economy did well or not depended on the vagaries of nature, such as the weather. The availability of land was seen as the major constraint on economic growth. Mercantilist thought prevailed. This was the basic notion that a country should try to hold on … Read more
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A translator is someone who converts words from one language into another, usually in written form. Someone who does the same job in spoken form and in real-time is usually called an interpreter. Translators specialize in specific language pairs, often only translating into their mother tongues. Many cultivate expertise in specific fields of translation, for … Read more
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You don't make it clear whether you're experiencing the problem as someone who's visiting the web page or as someone who's designing it. I'm going to assume the former. The problem arises because websites are usually designed to accommodate visitors running monitors with different resolutions. You probably have a large monitor running in a large … Read more
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Supreme Court Justices are nominated by the President and must then receive the approval of the Senate before they assume office. Usually, Supreme Court Justices are selected from among the ranks of the legal profession, but there are actually no hard and fast rules on who the President can pick. In theory, he can nominate … Read more
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There are several disadvantages to online gaming. One is that, obviously, it can only be played where an online connection is available. It means you cannot play some games you might like to play while out and about with your laptop, for example. An extension of this is that gaming might be disrupted by Internet … Read more
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The key advantage of online games is that they permit interaction with other human beings who also play the game. This potentially makes the games themselves more interesting because computer AI is not able to match the sophistication, subtlety and unpredictability of a human brain, but also encourages or facilitates the development of social skills. … Read more
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Agile scrum methodology is an approach to software development which is characterised by work being done in small teams composed of experts who build software in a series of small stages. The functionality which will be added at each stage is carefully considered.

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The distinction is a subtle one. Economic growth means simply an increase in income. Economic development, on the other hand, refers to deeper structural changes in a society.

Perhaps it is best illustrated with an example. Let's say that the only economic activity in an underdeveloped country other than subsistence agriculture is banana-growing for export. … Read more
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Public finance relates to the economic aspect of government, such as the business of raising and collecting taxes and borrowing money to pay for government operations. The term would normally be understood to cover all levels of government operations, from central government down to local town councils.

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The simplest way is to create an account on Ebay. Then used the Advanced Search features and tick the box which says "Completed Listings". Type in a search term which corresponds to your football cards. Then you will be able to see the prices which similar items have sold for in the past. Of course, … Read more